Two Gameview co-founders check out of DeNA while another starts a Canadian studio

There’s a little bit of a shake up at DeNA’s Gameview Studios, the early mobile-social gaming company the Japanese giant acquired back in late 2010.

Having hit their earnout dates, two of Gameview Studios’ co-founders, Riz Virk and Mitch Liu have left the company to work on new projects — which are probably related to gaming. Meanwhile, Virk’s brother Irfan has decided to stay on at DeNA and start a new gaming studio for the company in Vancouver.

Gameview’s third co-founder, Irfan Virk used to run an office out of Pakistan that developed titles inexpensively for the company. Now he will be heading up DeNA’s new subsidiary studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scheduled to open in late February, the studio will be called DeNA Studios Canada and will be responsible for design, development and operation support for other DeNA group companies. But it will primarily support Gameview titles. According to DeNA, the new Canadian studio will start with $600,000 in funding.

Around the same time DeNA bought Gameview, it also agreed to pay up to $403 million for another U.S.-based gaming company, ngmoco:). But we haven’t seen much turnover with that deal as the last part of their earnout kicks in during the middle of this year. Ngmoco’s chief executive Neil Young also became a director at the company.